Episode 036... MTD Transport & PONY Baseball

Double Feature
MTD Transportation & Opening Day for PONY Baseball

1. Off-Leash Public Affairs co-producer David Pritchett describes community efforts about schedule changes for MTD (Metropolitan Transit District) and how important riding the bus is for anyone who wants to be elected as a Santa Barbara City Councilmember. Line 8 for MTD was a particular focus by Pritchett through his participation in STUC (Sustainable Transportation Users Coalition) with its lead partners PUEBLO and COAST. Pritchett also briefly interviews San Francisco Mayor (and tall candidate for Governor) Gavin Newsom about his city experience with biodiesel fuel for their buses, during his visit to Santa Barbara on 20 March 2009.

2. The second half of this episode features Santa Barbara PONY Baseball, scenes of ball games and ceremonies from Opening Day for the season that began on 14 March 2009 at MacKenzie Park. This segment includes a Spanish-language interview with a PONY parent. We thank Cheri Rae, another PONY parent for facilitating the coverage of this video story by Off-Leash Public Affairs. A video short of this Opening Day event also is up at YouTube.


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TV-17 Replay Schedule (irregular times)

08/27/2009	11:30 PM

07/01/2009	07:30 PM
07/04/2009	05:30 PM
07/05/2009	09:30 AM
07/07/2009	07:00 AM
07/08/2009	05:30 PM
07/10/2009	02:00 PM
07/11/2009	09:00 AM
07/12/2009	07:00 PM
07/15/2009	07:30 PM
07/18/2009	05:30 PM
07/19/2009	09:30 AM

07/19/200	5:00 PM

07/21/2009	09:00 AM
07/23/2009	01:30 PM
07/25/2009	05:30 PM
07/26/2009	09:30 AM
07/28/2009	07:00 AM
07/29/2009	09:30 AM
07/30/2009	11:00 PM
08/04/2009	07:00 AM

Episode 035... Citizen McCaw World Premiere

"What Happened to the Public Trust?"

_To complement the film Citizen McCaw showing on SB Channels TV-21 starting 01 March 2009 (as CraigSmithsBlog reported), Off-Leash Public Affairs is please to be showing our own related production often scheduled for replay on TV-17 just before or after Citizen McCaw replays on TV-21.
_This OLPA episode, Citizen McCaw World Premiere, features interviews about the News-Press-Mess from the crowds ready to see the premiere of Citizen McCaw when that local documentary debuted 07 March 2008 at Arlington Theater and 05 April 2008 at Marjorie Luke Theatre in Santa Barbara.
_To about 15 different interview subjects, OLPA co-Producer David Pritchett asked:
1. What do you think of The Mess?
2. Where do you get your local news?
3. If you could ask the News-Press publisher any question, what would it be?

_The various responses were compelling, insightful, and/or amusing. Edhat was a popular and enthusiastic response as the source of local news, while others like Santa Barbara Daily Sound often were mentioned even though its readers often could not recall its name. That was in March 2008, though.
_People interviewed for this video include: Rod Lathim (Citizen McCaw co-Producer and local community arts magnate), Sara Miller McCune (who reminded assertive OLPA co-Producer Cathy Murillo that a newspaper buyer first needs a willing seller), Al Bonowitz, Josh Molina, Roy Regester, Starshine Roshell, Brian Barnwell, Sander Vanocur, Ann Moore, the unknown comic's brother, the emphatic Shirley, and quite a few others who spoke eloquently but did not state their name or whose name (more likely) was lost in editing.
_ OLPA episode 014 also covered an earlier chapter in the News-Press-Mess when the Teamsters Union prevailed in Federal court, twice. Encore replays of that video from January 2008 also is showing on TV-17 in March 2009, to pile on our Citizen News-Mess Fest.

Watch the Video of this show!!
45:00 minutes, including bonus content (not in the TV 28:30 version) of journalism tutorials from the Citizen McCaw website and the full interview with Rod Lathim)
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TV-17 Replay Schedule (irregular times for this Episode)

March/01/2009 Sunday 06:00 AM

March/01/2009 Sunday 08:00 PM

March/03/2009 Tuesday 11:30 AM

March/05/2009 Thurs. 11:30 AM

March/07/2009 Sat. 01:00 PM

March/07/2009 Sat. 07:30 PM

March/08/2009 Sunday 06:00 AM

March/08/2009 Sunday 09:00 PM

March/10/2009 Tues. 11:30 AM

March/12/2009 Thurs. 11:30 AM

March/14/2009 Sat. 01:00 PM

March/14/2009 Sat. 07:30 PM

March/15/2009 Sat. 06:00 PM

Episode 034... Nicholas Cavalier: a Story of Hope

In Conversation with Nick's Mother, Faith Magdalena
As the KEYT news story led:

Nick Cavalier, 21, of Santa Barbara seemed to have everything he needed for his young life, plenty of friends, good parents, and a job at the beach. But all of that changed in an instant during a fight on Chapala Street in Santa Barbara six months ago. Cavalier sustained serious brain injuries that night when he tried to break-up a fight between his friend and group of young men.

_This episode of Off-Leash Public Affairs features an interview by OLPA co-Producer Cathy Murillo with Faith Magdalena, determined mother of Nick Cavalier. They discuss what Nick is going through and her hopes for her son.
_This video was recorded 11 Jan. 2009 by co-Producer David Pritchett, on the creaky side deck of Magdalena's home in the Mesa Alta West neighborhood of Santa Barbara.

_Another casualty of the American Health Care Crisis, Nick Cavalier needs some long and expensive specialty therapy. On 05 Feb., his old and new friends held a fundraiser event, with a Facebook page. A fund for contributions under his name has been set up by Santa Barbara Bank and Trust (PO Box 60839, Santa Barbara 93160-0839).
_SB Daily Sound reported on his plight, in addition to opinion essays by Paul Rivas at his Goleta blog and an Independent Voice by Faith Magdalena, which includes some highly lively and illuminating comments there.

UPDATE (10Feb.2009) by Faith Magdalena: "The fundraiser was a great success. So much love and support! We will be planning another one at Deano's hopefully and then a homecoming BBQ at Ledbetter Beach. Nicholas will be entering Sylmar Health and Rehab Center [in Santa Clarita] instead of CNS in Bakersfield. I am very happy with what Sylmar has to offer in that they can help him with his learning how to maneuver with the lack of sight."

Watch the Video of this show!! (28:30 minutes)
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TV-17 Replay Schedule

02/07/2009	Sat. 10:00 AM
02/08/2009	Sun. 08:00 PM
02/10/2009	Tue. 12:00 AM
02/11/2009	Wed. 01:00 AM
02/14/2009	Sat. 10:00 AM
02/15/2009	Sun. 08:00 PM
02/16/2009	Mon. 12:30 PM
02/17/2009	Tue. 12:00 AM
02/21/2009	Sat. 10:00 AM
02/22/2009	Sun. 08:00 PM

Episode 033... Fiddlers' Convention by Rotary Club, Santa Barbara Sunrise

Service above Self
Rotary Club Sunrise grants funds to local non-profit organizations and puts on a great Fiddlers' Convention!
_Since 2001, Rotary Club Santa Barbara Sunrise has put on the annual Old-Time Fiddlers Convention and Festival, held in recent years at Stow House park in Goleta the Good Land. The event is a fundraiser for the separate Foundation for this local Rotary Club, which raises about $10 thousand per year for several small grants to local non-profit organizations doing good work in the Santa Barbara community. They also support international projects, as also shown in this video.
_In this video, between scenes of musical acts and jam sessions during the 37th annual Fiddler's Convention, Off-Leash Public Affairs (OLPA) co-Producer David Pritchett interviews Rotarians Bill Boyd, Dennis Johns, and Gary Jensen, who describe their fun Club and some community grant projects, including the picnic area at lower Elings Park.
_David Pritchett interviewed other grantees, including Joan Esposito and Les Esposito of Dyslexia Awareness & Resource Center; Sara Templeton and high-achiever Girl Scout Sara(h) __ of Girl Scouts of California Central Coast; and Christine Bowman of St. Vincent's, who described their services to local mothers and children.
_Fiddle purveyor Steve Joynes also informs about the brain-building value of school music education and the beer-worthiness of fiddles versus violins. The family of Okie Adams also is honored on the stage for his lifetime of contributions to old-timey music and banjo-making.
_In addition to various pick-up jam sessions shown close up, this video also feature a solo of Danny Boy; Old Time Fiddler Band from Meiners Oaks (Ojai); and homeboys Tom Murray and Rod Rolle of Stiff Pickle Orchestra, who play out the show through the end titles. The lead sponsor for the Fiddler's Convention this year was Duncan-Turner Acoustic Research of Goleta.
_As a companion video, a Short-Leash Subject also was produced and posted at YouTube. This 10:30 minute video features the long version of the interview with the 3 Sunrise Rotarians and some additional Fiddlers' Convention music jams not included in the full-length OLPA video episode.

Watch the Video of this show!!
34:15 minutes (including bonus content of stage remarks from the Okie Adams family and extra music jams).
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TV-17 Replay Schedule

01/24/2009	10:00 AM Saturday
01/25/2009	08:00 PM Sunday
01/27/2009	12:00 AM Tuesday
01/27/2009	04:00 AM Tuesday
01/28/2009	10:30 PM Wed.
01/30/2009	07:30 PM Friday
01/31/2009	10:00 AM Saturday
02/01/2009	08:00 PM Sunday
02/03/2009	12:00 AM Tuesday

02/04/2009

01:30 PM Wed.

Episode 032... Conversation with Helene Schneider

Helene Schneider Talks City
In the OLPA bamboo studio, Off-Leash Public Affairs co-Producer Cathy Murillo interviews Santa Barbara City Councilmember Helene Schneider regarding current issues in the City, including responses to Tea Fire Incident, Police Department funding and facilities, 10-year Plan to End Chronic Homelessness, upcoming dueling ballot measures about a limitation to downtown building heights, De la Vina Street free right turn, midnight releases from County jail, Casa Esperanza and aggressive begging, Veronica Meadows del Burro, UCSB basketball, Bohnett Park new kids area, winter weather, and other stuff.
_Shortly after this video was recorded (03 Dec. 2008) by OLPA co-Producer David Pritchett, Schneider softly announced that she is a candidate for Mayor of Santa Barbara. (See KEYT news videos.) Her new election committee was noted as the funding source on the reverse side of a December holiday greetings card mailed out to 1000+ Santa Barbara locals. With that as a tip, KEYT-TV3 news made a story of it and proclaimed that KEYT was the first to announce that Schneider was a candidate for Mayor in the November 2009 election.
_Off-Leash Public Affairs is eager and willing to interview ALL candidates for Santa Barbara Mayor!! Just contact us.

Watch the Video of this show!!
28:30 minutes (with some extra blank space at end).
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TV-17 Replay Schedule

12/20/2008	10:00 AM
12/21/2008	08:00 PM
12/24/2008	11:30 PM
12/25/2008	08:00 PM
12/27/2008	10:00 AM
12/28/2008	08:00 PM
12/30/2008	12:00 AM
01/01/2009	08:00 PM
01/03/2009	10:00 AM
01/04/2009	08:00 PM

01/06/2009	12:00 AM
01/08/2009	08:00 PM
01/10/2009	10:00 AM
01/11/2009	08:00 PM
01/13/2009	12:00 AM
01/17/2009	10:00 AM
01/18/2009	08:00 PM
01/20/2009	12:00 AM

Episode 031... Tea Fire Citizen Videography

Community rises to overcome wildfire disaster
The Tea Fire ignited the early evening of Thursday, 13th Nov. 2008.
_ This episode of Off-Leash Public Affairs (OLPA) features 15 amateur and semi-pro short videos (of nearly 100 published) that document the first few hours of the Tea Fire Incident and its near-term aftermath. Some of these featured 15 short videos are edited quite well and all were posted at YouTube within a few days or hours following the peak of the fire incident. The video producer or YouTube user name is indicated for each.
_ Although an earlier report put the total at 231 homes, as cited in this video, this wildfire destroyed 230 homes in the foothills of northeast Santa Barbara and northwest Montecito, and more than 5000 people evacuated during the most active phase of the fire that Thursday night.
_ In this video, OLPA co-Producer David Pritchett also includes excerpts from the multi-agency news conference held at Santa Barbara City Hall Friday afternoon, 22 hours after the wildfire ignition. By then, the wildfire had not expanded much because the winds stayed calm, and officials were cautiously optimistic that fire containment would be soon.
_ Approximately 70 people participated in that Friday news conference. County Supervisors Salud Carbajal and Janet Wolf noted then how the community rose to the occasion with aid to Tea Fire evacuees, firefighters, and support staff. Janet Wolf concludes the video with remarks about her personal experience when her home and 426 others burned during the Paint Fire in 1990.

Watch the Video of this show!!
28:30 minutes. For the video hosted by The Google, select the Episode title atop this post.
TV-17 Replay Schedule

11/29/2008	10:00 AM Saturday
11/30/2008	08:00 PM Sunday
12/04/2008	08:00 AM Thursday
12/05/2008	12:30 AM Friday
12/06/2008	10:00 AM Saturday
12/07/2008	08:00 PM Sunday
12/12/2008	07:00 PM Friday
12/13/2008	10:00 AM Saturday
12/14/2008 12/15/2008	08:00 PM Sunday 03:00 PM Monday

Episode 030... Will the New President Restore Our Liberties?

Change We Can Believe In?
Let's hope so.
__Remember the War on Iraq? With more than 4200 American military deaths so far, the war is still raging despite nationwide attention focused on the economic implosion. Remember how civil libe rties have eroded under the guise of national security that stretches or breaks even the new laws, including the USA PATRIOT Act? Those hasty laws still exist, but leadership from a new President could update them, or at least direct Federal officials to comply with the actual law about privacy for American citizens.
__This video was edited shortly before the election of Barack Obama, so it maintains a somewhat fake uncertainty about who will be the new American President. Recorded during the annual Santa Barbara Spirit of '76 Parade on Independence Day 2008, Bob Potter of Veterans for Peace and Ron St. John of American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) remind us about the Iraq War and how the U.S. Government seems to be violating its own Constitution. These patriots are interviewed under the backdrop of the parade happenings.
__Playing often on TV-17 on the Santa Barbara Channels GreenScreen show of video shorts playing weekdays in the 6 pm hour, a 9-minute Short-Leash Subject from the parade also was produced, sans interviews and only featuring some music, WWII U.S. Army re-enactors, and a few climate-changing noisy cars.
__As a reminder of Our Liberties, this OLPA episode concludes with low-res video from the March 2007 Peace March held in downtown Santa Barbara to commemorate the 4th Anniversary of the start of Iraq War. Several additional short video files from that Peace March up State Street were recorded by OLPA Producer David Pritchett.

Watch the Video of this show!!
36 minutes. Includes bonus content (not in the TV replay version) of the ABC news story about illegal Government telephone surveillance of American military personnel, plus more video from the March 2007 Peace March in Santa Barbara. For the video hosted by The Google, select the Episode title atop this post.
TV-17 Replay Schedule
11/10/2008 Mon. 10:00 AM

11/12/2008 Wed.	10:30 PM
11/15/2008 Sat.	10:00 AM
11/16/2008 Sun.	08:00 PM
11/18/2008 Tue.	04:00 AM
11/22/2008 Sat.	10:00 AM
11/23/2008 Sun.	08:00 PM

Episode 029... YES WE CAN Change Goleta Politics

Goleta Poised for Greatness after Nov. 2008 Election
With a nod to Goleta as neighbor to Santa Barbara, this episode of Off-Leash Public Affairs (OLPA) features the candidates for Goleta City Council, Third District County Supervisor, and Goleta Water Board. If elected Nov. 2008, they will be the Change We Can Believe In for The Good Land.
_ A politically progressive majority can be attained if Ed Easton and Margaret Connell were elected to Goleta City Council, if Bill Rosen and Lauren Hanson were elected to Goleta Water Board, if Doreen Farr were elected to County Board of Supervisors, and if Hannah-Beth Jackson were elected California State Senate (to attain a two-thirds Democratic majority to be able to pass a different kind of State budget and to overturn Gubernatorial vetoes of bills).
_ Recorded at the annual Democrats Labor Day celebration event held 01 Sept. 2008 at Oak Park in Santa Barbara, this OLPA episode features remarks by Santa Barbara County Democratic Party Chair Daraka Larimore-Hall, California State Controller John Chiang, Goleta City Council candidates Ed Easton and Margaret Connell, Goleta Water Board candidates Lauren Hanson and (remarks one step removed) Bill Rosen, Third District County Supervisor candidate Doreen Farr, State Senate candidate Hannah-Beth Jackson, State Assemblymember and re-election candidate Pedro Nava, and U.S. Congressional Member and re-election candidate Lois Capps, all describing the issues and why they would be the best legislative Decider if elected.
_ OLPA co-Producer Cathy Murillo recorded the video and conducted the interviews, with most editing by co-Producer David Pritchett, along with a snazzy "GreenScreen" introduction featuring some fantastic photos by MisterGoleta (aka Matthew E. Cohen).
_ Bonus Content: The last 10:30 minutes of this video is the Short-Leash Subject Proposition 4: What Part of NO Don't They Understand? Also on the Nov. 2008 ballot in Goleta and all of California, this issue about reproductive choice and safety for teenage girls was recorded from a rally held at Santa Barbara County Courthouse on 05 Sept. 2008. Speakers include Mark Asman (Trinity Episcopal Church), Linda Phillips (League of Women Voters), Joel Rodriguez-Flores (Community Organizer for PUEBLO and SEIU), Mary O'Gorman (SB Women's Political Committee) and Helene Schneider (Santa Barbara City Councilmember).

Watch the Video of this show!!
58:30 minutes. For the video hosted by Google, select the Episode title atop this post.

TV-17 Replay Schedule (irregular times)
10/08/2008 Wed. 9:00 PM

10/12/2008 Sun.	10:00 AM
10/20/2008 Mon.	09:30 AM
10/22/2008 Wed.	09:00 PM
10/24/2008 Fri.	09:30 AM
10/25/2008 Sat.	01:00 PM
10/27/2008 Mon.	09:30 AM
10/28/2008 Tue.	10:30 PM
10/31/2008 Fri.	12:10 PM
11/01/2008 Sat. 11/02/2008 Sun.	01:00 PM 03:00 PM
11/03/2008 Mon.	10:30 AM

Episode 028... Democrats FIRED UP for Change

FIRED UP and Ready To Go!!
Democratic Party stalwarts of Santa Barbara rallied during the re-election campaign kick-off event for Congressional Representative Lois Capps, held 06Sep.2006 at Capps Campaign Headquarters, 1920 De la Vina Street in downtown Santa Barbara.
__Politico speakers included (1) County Supervisor Salud Carbajal pitching for Measure A-2008 on the November County ballot, (2) plus a separate interview about MTD and Measure A with Santa Barbara City Councilmember Helene Schneider, (3) State Assemblymember Pedro Nava describing the State Budget tardiness woes, (4) and former Assemblymember and State Senate candidate Hannah-Beth Jackson urging all to vote their pockets by supporting Barack Obama for President. The video concludes with (5) Naomi Schwartz introducing (6) Lois Capps who speaks about her vision for the nation when Obama gets elected.
__Fresh from the Democratic National Convention as a delegate, (7) local Obama campaign leader Tim Allison also spoke and went to bat for Barack while (8) his 5.75-year-old son TJ Allison led the cheers for the crowd of about 150. Jerry Roberts wrote up a report of the event in his Capital Letters report at Independent website.

Watch the Video of this show!!
28:30 minutes.
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www.SBdemocrats.org

TV-17 Replay Schedule

10/07/2008 Tue.	04:30 AM
10/11/2008 Sat.	10:00 AM
10/12/2008 Sun.	08:00 PM
10/14/2008 Tue.	01:00 AM
10/16/2008 Thu.	07:30 AM
10/18/2008 Sat.	10:00 AM
10/19/2008 Sun.	08:00 PM
10/25/2008 Sat.	10:00 AM
10/26/2008 Sun.	08:00 PM

09/18/2008 09/20/2008	Thursday 07:13 PM Saturday 10:00 AM
09/21/2008	Sunday 08:00 PM
09/27/2008	Saturday 10:00 AM
09/28/2008	Sunday 01:00 AM
09/28/2008	Sunday 08:00 PM
09/29/2008	Monday 06:00 AM

10/01/2008	Wednesday 11:00 PM
10/04/2008	Saturday 10:00 AM
10/05/2008	Sunday 06:00 AM

Episode 027... Let Santa Barbara Ring

Marriage for All
__Affirming the right of same-gender couples to marry under the law, the California Supreme Court eliminated this vestige of discrimination by its ruling on 15th May 2008. The Court ruling overturned a ballot initiative 8 years earlier (Proposition 22-2000) that attempted to ingrain discrimination into the California Constitution.
__In this video, the people of Santa Barbara celebrate this Supreme Court ruling with a spontaneous rally held the same day and at the County Courthouse. Overshadowing the joyous mood, though, was yet another State ballot initiative (Proposition 8-2008 during the November election) that, again, intends to mess with the California Constitution by eliminating this affirmed civil right. Speakers during this rally mentioned an earlier event the prior February to commemorate the murder of Lawrence King, a high school student from Oxnard.
__When this right to marriage went in effect locally on 17th May, the video includes interviews with local clergy and covers some ceremonies held in the Santa Barbara County Courthouse tower.
__Hosted and produced by David Pritchett, this video episode of Off-Leash Public Affairs features interviews with and/or remarks by Helene Schneider, Mark Asman, Teena Grant, Hillary Blackerby, David Selberg, Jarrod Schwartz, Marty Blum, Iya Falcone, Mary O'Gorman, Salud Carbajal, Lauren Wyeth, Karen Quimby, Kim Summerfield, Sue Van Horsen, Andy Edgar-Beltran, Manny Edgar-Beltran, Melissa Mecija, Ross Beardsley, Percy Sales, Lauren Mancuso, and Ken Collier.
__As featured in the video, some organizations advocating to keep the existing legal right for same-gender couples to marry include Pacific Pride Foundation in Santa Barbara and the statewide organization Let California Ring.

Watch the Video of this show!!
45 minutes, with bonus content (in addition to the 28-minute TV-17 version) of the famous Garden Wedding video ad, a found montage of political hypocrisy about the marriage rights of Ellen DeGeneres, and the long-version outreach video by Let California Ring.
For an alternative video host via Google, select the Episode title atop this post.

TV-17 Replay Schedule
Third Replay Run
(and maybe more):

08/30/2010	03:30 PM
08/31/2010	10:30 PM
09/01/2010	05:30 PM
09/04/2010	08:00 PM
09/05/2010	05:00 PM
09/08/2010	07:30 AM
09/10/2010	05:00 PM
09/12/2010	07:00 PM

09/13/2010	3:30 PM

09/18/2010

08:00 PM

09/21/2010

11:30 PM

09/27/2010

03:30 PM

10/05/2010	11:00 AM

10/10/2010	07:00 PM

Second Replay Run:

09/30/2008	Tue. 11:30 AM
10/01/2008	Wed. 01:30 PM
10/05/2008 10/06/2008	Sun. 08:30 PM Mon. 1100 AM

10/07/2008 Tue. 2230

10/12/2008	Sat. 05:00 AM
10/13/2008	Sun. 03:00 PM
10/16/2008	Thu. 11:00 AM
10/22/2008	Wed. 02:30 PM
10/24/2008	Fri. 07:00 PM
10/29/2008 11/01/2008	Wed. 12:30 PM Sat. 11:30 AM
11/02/2008	Sun. 08:00 PM

First Replay Run:

08/30/2008 Sat.	10:00 AM
08/31/2008 Sun.	08:00 PM
09/06/2008 Sat.	10:00 AM
09/13/2008 Sat.	10:00 AM
09/14/2008 Sun.	08:00 PM
09/20/2008 Sat.	10:00 AM
9/21/2008 Sun.	08:00 PM

Episode 026... SB Women's Political Committee: 20 Years of Feminists Making a Difference

More Access, Voice, Power.
This episode covers the 20th Anniversary Celebration Dinner by Santa Barbara Women's Political Committee (SBWPC), held 18 March 2008 with an attendance of about 230. U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer was the keynote speaker and her full remarkes are featured in OLPA episode 019, produced shortly after the event.
This video captures the feel of the event and OLPA co-Host David Pritchett interviews various SBWPC members about the state of local feminism since the SBWPC Founding Mothers launched the organization 20 years earlier. Interviews are with SBWPC members and friends Lori Schneider, Margaret Connell, Willie Rowan, David Landecker, County Supervisor Janet Wolf, Susie Dumpis, Vijaya Jammalamadaka, Patty Monroy, Liz Camacho, SBWPC Board President Mary O'Gorman, and Lisa Guravitz. Additional speakers include County Supervisor Salud Carbajal, State Senate candidate Hannah-Beth Jackson, and Susan Rose receiving the annual Roses Award.__Replay Schedule on TV-17__

Saturday, Aug./02/2008	10:00 AM
Sunday, Aug./03/2008	08:00 PM
Wed., Aug./06/2008	03:30 AM
Saturday, Aug./09/2008	10:00 AM
Sunday, Aug./10/2008	02:00 PM
Sunday, Aug./10/2008	08:00 PM
Tuesday, Aug./12/2008	02:00 AM
Wed., Aug./13/2008	05:30 AM
Saturday, Aug./16/2008	10:00 AM
Sunday, Aug./17/2008	08:00 PM

Friday, Aug. 22, 0630 am

Episode 025... How Santa Barbara Welcomes John McCain

Vote the Dinosaur for President!
Encore TV replays:
Saturday, 23 Aug. at 10 am
Sunday, 24 Aug., at 8 pm
Monday, 25 Aug. at 5:30 am

Republican Presidential nominee John McCain should be careful about whom he invites to speak during his own campaign events.
__Invited by the McCain campaign to be a local speaker during a panel discussion (held 24 June 2008) about a national energy policy, local land conservationist Michael Feeney seemed to grab more attention than either McCain or Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. Or so it seemed, considering that this was a Presidential election campaign event where usually the speakers and audience are selected to stay on message, lest the headlines become, as they did, more about the dissent instead of the political sales pitch the campaign event is intended to be.
__The event filled the house at Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, although many political watchers wondered (not really) why such a small venue was selected, having a capacity of only about 300. With school out for summer, Santa Barbara City College was highly available for a crowd of 8 thousand that worked for Barack Obama, or even a UCSB gym that could hold 1000 as it did for Hillary Clinton.
__During this campaign event-discussion, Feeney "lambasted" and "excoriated" McCain (or so wrote ABC News) about relying upon and expanding nuclear power generation to solve the national energy crisis. Feeney also cautioned that storing and transporting all that radioactive waste still remains a severe problem with no solution. McCain's answer to that --to emulate the French-- really means shipping off the radioactive waste to somewhere else regardless if the Americans there did or did not want that nuke waste, the gift that keeps giving for millennia.
__More offshore oil development and drilling also did not go over so well with the crowd of about 150 people who came to welcome McCain to Santa Barbara that Tuesday morning. John Abraham Powell of Get Oil Out (GOO) spoke about that and a rumoured choice for McCain's Veep selection. Santa Barbara City Councilmember Das Williams and local Democratic champion Barbie Deutsch also piled on about the irony of McCain promoting more offshore oil development here in Santa Barbara.
__And another crowd dis-pleaser: McCain's opposition to reproductive choice for women. Brianna Eardley of Planned Parenthood Federation described McCain's desire to appoint anti-choice Supreme Court Justices, while Santa Barbara City Councilmember Helene Schneider told of McCain's less-than-zero voting record about women's health issues.

__See the whole spectacle in this video episode of Off-Leash Public Affairs, which started the TV-17 replays on Saturday, 12 July 2008.

excerpted photo by Lauren Hanson or Mary Jones via Edhat

Watch the Video of this show!! (32 minutes, including bonus content of photo montage from the 1969 oil spill in Santa Barbara) For an alternative video host via Vimeo, select the Episode title atop this post.

Episode 024... Take Back The Park

Carpe Parcem
Few people know or appreciate that the park-like lawn area in front of Fess Parker DoubleTree Resort (DoubleTree Hotel) actually is public open space with no restrictions on access. This site lies along Cabrillo Bl. at East Beach in Santa Barbara. The hotel cannot exclude people from passive recreation and picnicking there, as a legal condition of approval from when the hotel project was planned 1979-1981 and approved by the City and California Coastal Commission.
__This history and the joys of the public open space are explained in this video by David Stone, the Founder and Visionary of Take Back The Park, an annual event celebrated there during an afternoon each July since 1987. This video was recorded from Take Back The Park XX (held 07 July 2007), with additional content from a June 2008 interview with Dave Davis, the Santa Barbara City Planner for the hotel project at the time.
__An OLPA Short-Leash Subject (3 minutes) on this also is available at YouTube. This full OLPA episode debuted 23 June 2008, and replayed 9 times on local cable TV-17.

Watch the Video of this show!! (44 minutes, including bonus content of Park Party Animals, Rotunda ruckus, and the full interview with Dave Davis) For the video host at Vimeo, select the Episode title atop this post.